Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades

King Crimson studio portrait
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King Crimson guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk has revealed that the band are currently working on a new album, their first since 2003's The Power to Believe.

Speaking with Goldmine, Jakszyk is asked about joining King Crimson in 2013, a decade after he'd founded the 21st Century Schizoid Band to perform Crimson songs alongside band alumni Ian McDonald, Mel Collins, Peter Giles and Michael Giles.

"It was an amazing thing to have done, and in a way, part of it's still happening," says Jakszyk. "As we speak, we're doing a King Crimson studio album.

"When that will come out and what format or how – that's beyond my brief. But yeah, we've been doing it piecemeal, and then a couple of months ago, the management said, 'Can we?' So, yeah. I've been recording that with a view to it coming out in some format at some point. But who knows when?"

He goes on to confirm that the lineup of musicians on the album will be the same as that which completed King Crimson's final tour in 2021, namely Jakszyk, band leader and guitarist Robert Fripp, bassist Tony Levin, saxophonist Mel Collins and drummers Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey.

Jakszyk also confirms that his 2011 solo album A Scarcity of Miracleswhich featured Fripp, Levin, Collins and Harrison and has been unavailable for some time – is to be reissued.

"There's a version of it that's about to come out with loads and loads of extra stuff," he says. "Because of the nature of how we made that record, there's lots of improvisation and seriously alternate versions of things that we didn't release."

Jakko Jakszyk's new solo album, Son of Glen, is out now.

Fraser Lewry
Online Editor, Classic Rock

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 39 years in music industry, online for 26. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.

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